Shadow of the Law (1930)

US:: NR Crime Drama Mystery

John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.

Updated May 31 2020

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1930-06-06

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Keywords:

killing self-defense suite

FACTS

Runtime: 69 mins Rating: 7.0 Tag Line: Two Women Want Him...One for His Money...One for His Love...And the Law Wants Him for Life!

Cast

Edward Peil Sr.

Usher

George Irving

Colonel Wentworth

Richard Tucker

Lew Durkin

Paul Hurst

Pete Shore

Regis Toomey

Dalton

Edward LeSaint

Judge

William Powell

Jim Montgomery aka John Nelson

Natalie Moorhead

Ethel Barry aka Ethel George